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CYSTOPTERIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly small perennial rock ferns: bladder ferns; in some classifications placed in Polypodiaceae
Synonyms:
Cystopteris; genus Cystopteris
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Cystopteris" is a kind of...):
fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "Cystopteris"):
bladder fern (any fern of the genus Cystopteris characterized by a hooded indusium or bladderlike membrane covering the sori)
Holonyms ("Cystopteris" is a member of...):
Athyriaceae; Dryopteridaceae; family Athyriaceae; family Dryopteridaceae (alternative names for one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)
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